Loratab withdrawls

hey its been 12 days that i have got off pain killers and i was taken them all day i could not even get out of bed tell i have one but going cold trukey is the best just trust yourself and give you a good 5 days. the pain will pass its all in the mind

trust in god and the pain will pass good luck

i am on lortab 10 i need help anythig tha u can do 2 help my e mali is ***** i will do the right thing i just need some hep!!! :-(


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i HAVE BEEN ON TABS FOR TWENTY YEARS, ONLY FOUR A DAY. i THINK THAT IS A LOW DOSE, i SOMETIMES STOP FOR THREE WEEKS JUST TO FILFTER OUT MY SYSTEM, i SEE NOTHING WRONG AS ALONG AS YOU ARE IN CONTROL, JUST KEEP SAYING THAT IT REALY IS ALL IN YOUR MIND, THATS IT. i PLAN ON TAKING TABS FOR THE NEXT TWENTY YEARS, i ENJOY THE FEELING AS WELL AS THE POWER. i HOPE EVERYONE CAN DO THE RIGHT THING, AND GOOD LUCK TO ALL, AND GOD BLESS!!!

To the person who wrote about how you can come off an addiction by yourself is full of it. Yeah, you can come off of something and in the process you will trade it for something else, some other addiction.
Addiction is not caused by being addiction to a substance, it is caused by first something in your life that you could or refused to deal with. You have to treat the emotional and mental and physical before you can become in recovery. You have to learn what caused you to become addicted before you can even start recovery. Not a simple, oh just put whatever it is down and stop. That is not only dangerous but can kill you.
I have worked in drug addiction for over 25 years and almost all addicts trade one addiction for another if they never seek the root of the problem in the first place.

First of all there is a difference between dependance and addiction. Dependance for me is a need of this drug for my cronic back pain. Addiction is when you have no pain or have had pain and no longer have it but now the question comes in am I dependant or addicted. In the latter case (dependant or addicted) I feel it makes no difference. If you feel you can cope with your pain or non pain then yes it is better to be off of chemicals in your body. How to get off and not suffer becomes the difficult question. And one I battle with every day of my life. I have had three back surgeries and the last one made my condition worse. I battle in my mind and say can I excersize and get rid of this pain and cope without these depressing narcotics. This is something you have to come to a conclusion for your self. ( Your wife ) No one can decide for her. When and if she decides she can cope or no longer has pain or a need of this drug I believe true medical help for this type of problem is few and far inbetween. I would simply ask my doctor to ween me off very slow. If not your nerves will feel raw, you will loose sleep night after night, you stomach will feel rotten and life in general will be your personal hell. I would simply not make a large deal of this. Do not sweat the small stuff and make a mountain out of a mole hill. Use you personal doctor or the one that prescribes this stuff to you and tell him you think you have come to the point that you do not need this any more and get on a regimine to reduce slowly or add something to help with the withdrawl symptoms. I have gone through this many times in my life. Broken back, kidney stones, broken leg etc etc. It is not easy. The worst thing you can do is tell your wife she is just looking for a fix. If she truly does not need lortabs anymore she is truly battling a mental hell. Be there for her but you cannot decide for her. If you attempt this all she has to do is see another doctor and find what she wants. She has to want this for herself.

I sypmthize with you wife deeply and go through the same thing.

my boyfriend just told me he is addicted to codeine and has been for over a year. he says he doesn't need to go to rehab. i think he should though. how else is he going to stop? how else is he going to get help? also i don't know how to act around him now, i don't know how he's feeling or if he's going to stop using. what should i do??

HELLO I JUST TURNED 30 AND HAVE BEEN ADDICTED TO LORATAB FOR OVER 4YRS NOW I'VE BEEN TO REHAB A FEW TIMES BUT IT NEVER WORKED.I DONT KNOW IF IT WAS BECAUSE I DIDNT WONT TO STOP OR I REALLY COULDNT AND THE ONE THING THAT I DO KNOW IS THE CRAVING NEVER GOES AWAY.I'VE TRIED COLD TURKEY AND THAT'S JUST CRAZY NOBODY CAN GET OFF OF THEM THAT WAY BECAUSE THE WITHDRAWS ARE SO HARD ON YOUR BODY AND IT'S NOT SAFE AT ALL!I DONT KNOW THE ANSWER IF YOU HAVE ONE PLEASE LET ME KNOW THANKS FOR LISTENING.

%-) well im 29 and i started taking loratab 10 about year in half ago, when i had my daughter.I never knew they made you feel like that,helps me move clean take care of my two kids.energy basically.Now i realize i cant stop.my moms has them and oxys.I tried stoping and keep taking them.I dont know what to do i dont have insurance to go to the doctor anyone can help me please do, thanks

I ran across this forum searching for possible side effects from the abuse of Neurontin and Loratab. I haven't found exactly what I was looking for but I wanted to stop for a minute to share something with you guys.

About 5 or 6 years ago I was living with my mom, she had neck and other pain that the doctor prescribed her many pain killers for. He had her on loratab, vicotin, oxycontin, fentenol patches, darvaset, perkasets and who knows what else! He had her on Soma and other muscle relaxers as well.

So at this point I am 16 yrs old, I have back pain from a car accident, I go to physical therapy, and the doctor(same as moms) prescribes me loratab. Thats it, I'm hooked, and I mean HOOKED. I started taking more and more of my own until I ran out, then I stole them and other pills from mom. At this point we were both addicted.
I used my boyfriend to get free "just about any pill I wanted", including neurontin, vicotin, tramadol, darvaset, and perkasets. I know I can't spell most of these drugs but you know what I mean.

Then the doctor took me off of the loratab. I was like ok whatever and just got it from my boyfriend and so called friends.

Ok, so now at this point I am 17, I am slowing down on taking the pills because I am realizing I can't function without them and don't like it.
But now mom is going to a different doctor who still has her on Oxycontin and Soma. He ups her dose of Oxycontin for a while then, snap! no more, your done, thats it! Totally took her off of the Oxycontin completely because low and behold he was being investigated for giving "unneeded prescriptions". So he stopped her almost cold turkey so he would have one less patient on Oxycontin. So she gets what she wants from her so called friends and other "hook ups" that they know. heh... friends...sure

I told her she needed to stop and she countered with "well it's ok for you but not for me?" and no matter what I said I could not make her understand that I was not taking a handful of oxycontin, methadone, and somas all at once like her. So I left and went to live with my dad which was not a great situation, but I thought that would make her quit to get me to come home. But that didn't happen.
I came home to spend some time with her after not seeing her for several months. We had a great time that night, went shopping with her boyfriend, we had lots of fun. We went to bed at 4am, I woke up at 8am and she was dead. She was 38, I was 17.

Mom had struggled with other drug addictions in the past, I know she was an addict. But that is the whole point. Why, why oh why did they put her on oxycontin, methadone, fentinol patches, and soma? He knew she had an addictive personality and he continued prescribing her the drugs even when he KNEW she was abusing them (getting refills too early, being upset when they wouldn't refill early).

My entire point of telling you all this is that I don't want another child waking up to see their mother dead because a doctor was more concerned about their kickbacks than the life of their patient. Please do not take the word of your doctor for gospel, get second opinions and always try a natural healing method before turning to prescription narcotics and other drugs.
I also hope that this will help someone who is abusing any prescription to realize that you are going to hurt more than just yourself whether you think so or not. Mom never wanted to hurt me, she loved me, but now I have hurt everyday for the last three years for her and will for the rest of my life.

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i have been addicted to loritabs or loricettes (hydrocodone) for going on 8 years . i went to the methadone clinic for 2 and a half years. i felt as if i had my life back, i was sober for 15 days . i held a steady job and made excellent money for my family. the mehtadone clinic was only 95 dollars a week. i weaned myself down to 2.5 mg/ then came off. i was attending church regularly and really thought as if i wasnt a drug addict anymore, then all of a sudden i thought well its been 15 days and i havent had a xanex in 2 and a half years so i took two then four. due to the influence of friends. then i thought well why not ill mix a pain pill in with it . now before you know it im back to needing 7 or 8 a day or im sick. i have left my husband because he doesnt understand he says that he spent 10,000 dollars in the clinic for nothing. i have nothing now. i quit my job due to being pill sick, im not doing as much as before but im up to at least 6 to 8 a day now. i dont want to lose my family my 17 year old son threathens to go to his dads. please help me. my husband wont let me go back to the c linic he says he loves me but cant deal with it anymore. says he has lived all these years of hell. i cant stop. the fear of being pill sick, throws me into a major anxiety attack without the hydrocone. i feel like im going crazy . i love my husband and family i am 37 years old. God know i just want to be normal. but the sickness is more than i can bare, ive always had panic attacks and depression. the only time i feel happy is when i have hydrocodone in my system any advice?

hi iam on here today..because a week ago i was having withdrawals from loratabs.. im a hair dresser and i have two herniated disks and a bulging disk with of course artritius. sorry if i didn't spell that right.. anyway i have been hooked on loratabs for 3 years.... a week ago i ran out of my pills ... for the first time ever .. my husband knew that i was changing i would make comments like where our my pills i cant make the day without them... any way he didn't know how bad i was until last Monday when i ran out .. i was in my room shaking with cold sweats my nose running an constantly in the bathroom if you know what i mean ....i was crying and he asked me what was wrong and i finally confessed he was shocked and upset at me .... i told him to leave me alone i needed to do this im tired of taking them and feeling the dependency of them ... he wouldn't leave my side and i begged him ... the next day he was up early and i asked him where r u going he said to the doctor to get u your pills i cant stand to see you like this ... i begged him not to ... to let me withdrawal... he has a fatty liver and is in pain and he gets them but doesn't take them so when he came back from the doctor he gave me one i didn't want to take it but i couldnt take the pain in my back and in my stomach... i r ember when i was withdrawing all i could think of was the pill. when he would talk i would try and act like i was okay but i felt like i was crawling out of my skin... needles to say im still on them ... it scares me that i depend on them and i dont know what i will do when i dont have them ...........i thought i write this so i can read this back to me and see how petetic iam... and feel petheitic .. so this is my story iam shamed to say iam addicted to loratabs and i know in the long run this drug will affect my liver but i cant iamge bein g with out them so ..i write this for my self so i can look back at this when i m clean and see how this pill consumed my life.. thank you all .. we are courages for even writing this and letting other poeple see this... good bye

i cried when i read your story my heart goes out to you... i know exactly what you are going through i cant give you advise cuse i cant even help my self... be strong ....

To share my situation: I am one who has taken Hydrocodone for about 3 years now. I have been in two car accidents a year to the day apart. My back is extremely spastic and very painful. I have had Facet injections (8 total), Trigger Point injections (6 total) and Botox Injections directly into the back muscles (8 total). I also have been down the conventional route with PT, massage therapy and accupuncture. The ony relief I have is my meds. The Hydrocodone is actually not the normal run of the mill stuff. It's made speciffically for me through a Specialty Pharmacy. There's no Acetamedaphine in them, however they are 30 MG of Hydrocodone. I originally began on the 5/500, working eventually up to 10/325's. Now, I am at 30 MG pills 5 times a day. I'm sure that eventually I will be at 50 MG per pill as my tolerance increases. I have no choice of taking these - without the Hydrocodone, I wouldn't be able to work and would have to be on disability. I can't even get up on my own without the relief of the pain meds provide.

It's not as much that I feel necessarily the need to remove myself from the power of these Pain Killers. It's an interesting point that due to my condition, the way others act around me makes me realize how different people around me act knowing I have these pills. It's like the lottery, I have friends I never knew I had.

The pain pills you guys are taking are opiates, a very addictive class of drug. I personally have gone through hyrdocodone and opium (black tar) addictions, but I've tried just about every opiate other than heroin, and must say that honest to god the best thing you can do for yourself to get off this sh*t is to smoke alot of weed. Pot is a miracle drug. I have found that actually I recover better from surgeries when I smoke weed all day than when I take the medication I was perscribed for pain. It makes you happy, relieves pain, makes you less lethargic, and less naseaus than opiates, actually encourages eating and drinking, and above all is not addictive. Of course then I'd usually stockpile the perscription I got, milking it as long as possible and then either binging on it, or selling it after I recovered, but that's not the point.

Even if you arn't a pothead, hell even if you've never smoked weed and don't know how to buy any, go to a incense shop, prefereably one with alot of Greatful Dead and Sublime posters, and ask someone wearing alot of hemp if they know where you could get an eight of dank. It's easier than you think, and will seriously make withdrawal so much better. It will ease the physical symptoms and provide a stepping stone back towards sobriety, you'll still be high and happy all the time for a little while, but it's a much less damaging and addictive high. Once your withdrawal is over, start cutting back the pot smoking (if you want to that is, in the scheme of things being a habitual potsmoker is pretty cheap and harmless, especially when compared to the addiction you've gotten over). Once you start having intervals of sobriety between smoke sessions, and you feel comfortable with actually being sober, try going a day with no drugs. The most important thing is don't rush yourself. You'll find quiting smoking pot to be melancholy but not nearly as hard as what you've already been through.

i have cronic pain, i hate taking the pills but what can i do i need them 2 per day 10mg am taking to much i still have pain do i need something stronger please advise